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Get yourself ready, and do your work. Sit in quiet contemplation, and stillness. Cast the net of your intentions beyond. See what you want.
Prepare. Rather than being a slave to worry, be a warrior to certainty. Slaying the demons as they arrive.
You alone are in charge of this. It’s time. No need to wait, you’ve been here before.
It will go how it will, yet NOW you won’t be in the way of it.
To wake up.
To be myself.
To appreciate it all.
To live a life expressing from authentic realizations.
To carve out impressions of my finer points leaving footsteps that inspire.
What about difficulties?
I aspire to transcend them, and they in turn become like smoke, not like armor.
To be noble and humble.
I am thankful that the arrival of truth comes about through a loving moment.
This picture is the last bit of stuff that went in to my car.
I just moved. Am now in an apartment. Yesterday was a real big day in getting organized. A big move across a few states and voila, am in a new place. A wasp happened upon my screen in the living room, so I looked it up. I love the part about use of female warrior energy, and assisting in assertive communication. So valuable to remember in mercury retrograde.
Have a look:
Wasp/Hornet/Yellowjacket’s Wisdom Includes:
Use of female warrior energy
Sisterhood
Understanding female societies
Communal living
Animal symbolism of the wasp deals with:
• order
• construction
• communication
• involvement
• development
• progress
• team-work
• productivity
The wasp might be a sign that we may need to express ourselves more clearly.
Because the wasp is symbolic of communication, order and productivity, those who encounter the wasp may ask themselves:
• “Are all my affairs in order?”
• “Am I aligning myself with my goals?”
• “Am I procrastinating about something?”
• “Am I keeping myself from reaching my highest potential?”
• “Am I allowing my progress to be held back by others?”
Those with the wasp as their totem may learn more by asking these questions of themselves, and calling upon the wasp for more clarification too.
Wasps are perfect totems for those of us who need a bit of organized focus, and assistance with assertive communication.
The wasp can also help in areas of building, whether it be a new home, or building on a dream – the wasp is a master architect and can guide you with the planning of any building project you have in mind.
How cool…
Hi all..in the topic of symbols, Friday I went to the mall, which is a rare event to see about resoling my favorite boots, and as I left I saw this little guy.The Cormorants have been used as symbols of nobility, indulgence, and in more modern times a totem for fishermen and a bountiful catch.
The fishing technique of cormorant is excellent. They are skilled at maneuvering through murky waters and finding fish even at great depths. Not only that, they can literally swim under water. Often, they will swim alongside small boats and help fisherman at their task. They will swim under water and then pop back up when they have a fish in their mouth. This nature of the bird is considered to be very giving. They can signify prosperous times ahead. They can also indicate that a negative period in your life is going to be overcome.
When the cormorant comes to you as a guide, it is there to it give encouragement. It says that you need to engage in a new opportunity which you may think that you are unable to do. Because this bird is quite intelligent it is a representation that you need to use your own wit and skill to reach a goal or achieve a task. While this bird can be a spirit that comes to you, sometimes in times of need you may wish to call on the cormorant when you are feeling lost or out of touch with your own goals. The cormorant can teach you how to be more self-reliant and to use your own wisdom to attain your goals.
Take the opportunity of this new moon with a solar eclipse to immerse yourself into a deeper feminine place. Look at this from your perspective, from your mother’s perspective, and with great love and respect, let go of anything that doesn’t fit. A deeper calling is “hear” for you: feel directly. Go to the earth, if only for one moment, and with bare feet place your hands on the ground as well. You will be a current of energy running deep into mother earth. Allow anything that is no longer true to form, go – with hands and feet wide and vulnerable – straighten the hooks of attachments created both by you and anyone else. Let go! Ask of the Divine Mother to fill your heart and direct you gently. Be your own individual. Breathe and smile. Share via the comments!
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Super Simple Kitchari Recipe:
Ingredients:
1 cup basmati rice
½ cup split yellow mung dal
6 cups water
1 Tbs ghee
1 Tbs Kitchari Spice Mix:
For my kitchari spice mix: 1 T turmeric, 1 T fenugreek, 1 T cumin seeds, 1 T coriander, 1 T hing (asafoetida), 1 T Sea Salt
You can also substitute or add mustard seeds, but they are more fiery so I don’t use them in the summer.
I take a spice bottle and mix all these spices together in equal parts, so that when I make kitchari all I have to do is use 1 T from the bottle.
Method of Preparation:
Wash and then soak the yellow mung dal for at least 4 hours. Drain the soak water when you are ready to cook. Also wash the rice at the time of cooking. In a large saucepan, add the ghee and allow to warm. Add the Kitchari Spice Mix and sauté for about 1 minute. (Take caution not to burn the spices.) Add the rice and mung dal and sauté for another 1-2 minutes. Add 6 cups of water and bring to a boil. Reduce to a low-medium heat, cover the pot and let the kitchari cook on a simmer for 40-45 minutes*.
If you would like to add vegetables, add dense vegetables (like sweet potatoes and carrots) after the kitchari is half cooked (after about 15-20 minutes). Add leafy vegetables like kale towards the end of the cooking process. Once the cooking is complete, add salt to taste, and garnish with lime, cilantro and coconut as desired. Enjoy!
*Cook times may vary in higher altitudes. If longer cooking time is necessary, you may need additional 1-2 cups water.
Also, I love this film: Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Quality, Originality, and Consistency. These are attributes that this sushi master shares. It so soooooo delightful.
I think if i just ate kitchari and Jiro’s sushi for a few days everything would be right as rain.
Currently attention spans are miniscule, as is happiness and peace of mind. When we stick with something- see it through, have integrity, complete it, even if it’s a mood, its power over us diminishes. That’s what I did. I sat still. It was a turning point as I had been physically and mentally running everywhere.
One of my first inspirational teachers, Carolyn Myss, did that. She needed direction, and sat at a stop light watching it change from red to green to yellow several times. She was begging for a sign and then she would move. Her eyes finally focused on the medical center where her mentor, Dr. Norm Shealy was resident. The rest is history. If you don’t know her story, she began as a medical intuitive and her work with Norm was instrumental. They are colleagues to this day.
I talk about facing things, and seeing them as they are. This may not mean that we totally understand, but if we can look at something without judgement, we will get direction. Judgment (look how fickle it is it even has two acceptable spellings) is the spoiler. Hurray..out of judgement and into action! But what now, how?
~Do you know how long it takes to make a movie? And people barely have the attention to sit through them. The devices we can view them on are getting smaller and smaller. Soon enough an acceptable movie may be three minutes.
I like to get people to sit still. One of my favorite people to spend time with on this planet is my mother. She loves to have tea with no agenda. She and I can sit together til the cows come home. Can you tell I’m from Indiana? One of our secrets is we laugh a lot. Now she is in a different state of mind, doesn’t speak, and I still enjoy sitting with her. This freaks people out! It’s not hard for me, because I don’t need her to speak with words, to be other than she can demonstrate. I am grateful we are still laughing. I attribute some of this ability to my training as an actor. Actors can be very healthy people, they try on roles instead of identify with them.
Let go!
When I woke up this morning my first thoughts were about being a river. I saw very clearly the things that keep me clinging to the shore. Zen uses the river as an example of how to live a life in flow. Whoever I am still carrying and wherever I perseverate is me clinging to the shore. We don’t have to stay on the shore. Comfort is also the shore. That’s why Zen says stay moving. I see self inflicted torture as standing on the shore watching life go by, they are the thoughts that keep us from jumping in and letting nature deliver. When I got up and I looked at new emails there was one from my sister:
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a
spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you noticed that judgement and worry partner? The good news is acceptance and witnessing partner as well. Check out these relationships- It makes a huge difference. The conversation changes. You can quit the cycle of worry; it’s a trapping of the judge. Just notice, when you worry you are judging something. Worry is a cycle as it will go around and around without end. Until…you hit the wall- A decision, an aha that witnesses it for what it is. An excuse, a misunderstanding that there has never been a REAL reason for. It’s been passed on by ignorance. It’s a phantom. That doesn’t make it any less domineering. The Watcher is patient, detached and the best news of all it’s available and waiting. Always has been, always will be. That we can experience the witness at any time is rather awesome. If you start to worry and judge remember the witness. Its scope is so far reaching and inexhaustible. If you reach its limit- You are enlightened…right?! I haven’t had the experience really, but have had a taste, just enough to write this.
I believe the purpose of life is to discover who-what we are. That said, following what has heart , and to take risks therein is a path in just that. Just do it. Don’t quit, that’s the key. You grow.